COLLEGE PREZ CAUGHT TRYING TO INFLUENCE ‘RELIGION RATINGS’

COLLEGE PREZ CAUGHT TRYING TO INFLUENCE ‘RELIGION RATINGS’

ST. PAUL, Minn. (Wireless Flash) – A college president upset that his school was ranked “America’s Least-Religious Campus” in a college poll has been busted for trying to change the rankings. Every year, the Princeton Review polls students at 331 American colleges on a variety of topics – including how often they pray – and Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, came in dead last in this year’s survey. Upset by the low ranking, Michael McPherson decided to ask students to say they “pray a lot” in next years’ poll. Sound sinful? Maybe, but McPherson feels the school’s current low ranking gives a misleading impression of the campus, which is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church. However, he now regrets asking students to stack the odds in the survey and has withdrawn his request.

Thu 12-06-01